Female Figure

The commanding size of this elongated figure differentiates it from other Nyamwezi figures in museum collections. It was made in seven pieces that can be assembled easily into an asymmetrical and off-balanced pose. Some hallmarks of Nyamwezi art are expressed in this sculpture, including unsettling references to crippling infirmity in the form of a goiter (an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid near the throat), awkwardly bent legs, knobby joints, and blocky feet.

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The Bedroom, 1889

En søndag eftermiddag på øen La Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Gade i Paris på en regnvejrsdag, 1877

To søstre, 1881

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

American Gothic, 1930

Nighthawks, 1942

Flavio da Silva After Asthma Attack, the Favela, 1961

Das Kranke Kind (The Sick Child), 1918

Misery (La Misère), c. 1886

Sickness (La Maladie), 1884

Misery (La Misère), c. 1886

Jackie, 1986

Théodore Géricault on His Deathbed, 1824

Allegory of Sickness, ca. 1640 - ca. 1650